Tag Archives: Emacs

One of the killer features of Journelly for many of us is that Journelly’s data is stored as Org Mode markup and that this data is easily synced to the iCloud so that it can be shared among all your … Continue reading →

One of the strengths—or weaknesses, depending on your point of view—of Lisp is garbage collection. That means that memory no longer in use is automatically collected and made available to the system without depending on the programmer to release it … Continue reading →

Back before I became an Emacser, a friend who was an Emacser said that I shouldn’t worry about the Emacs keybindings because I could configure them to be whatever I want. I remember thinking that that would be disaster. After … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, surveypoodle asks a perennial question: what are the best keyboards for Emacs? He points out that Emacs pinky seems to have appeared rather late in the editor’s history and speculates that that’s because the keyboards … Continue reading →

Courtesy of JTR from The Art Of Not Asking Why, here’s a handy tip for dealing with window placement when bringing up a Dired buffer. There are two problems. The first doesn’t really concern window placement. Most often JTR wants … Continue reading →

Charles Choi makes an astute observation about the Emacs initialization file from the point of view of the new user: there’s no obvious way of loading it or even knowing that it exists. The problem is especially acute on the … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, sebhoagie has a short post that some of you may find useful. Sebhoagie really likes narrowing and uses it all the time. Sometimes, though, the narrowed code refers to code outside the narrowed region and … Continue reading →

MarchZealousideal543 over at the Emacs subreddit asks a familiar question: Is it really feasible or even possible for a non-programmer to use Emacs productively? I know I write about this a lot but I find the subject fascinating. MarchZealousideal543 got … Continue reading →

If you’re one of those brave folks who doesn’t mind browsing the Web from within Emacs, I just came across a package that may interest you. It’s emacs-websearch a small utility that lets you specify a term, search for it … Continue reading →